Guy guard



Dec. 12, 1933. C A. FOX 1,938,957

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: ATTORNE 5 Patented Dec. 12, 1933 GUY GUARD Charles Adin Fort, St.Louis, Mo., assignor to v James R. Kearney Corporation, St. Louis, Mo.,a

corporation of Missouri 7 I Application October 10, 1932; Serial No.637,019

10 Claims. 189'-31'.5)

My invention relates to improvements in so called guy guards, orprotector devices employed in connection with guy rods and cables ofrelatively small diameter for purposes of avoiding i collision therewithby rendering such instrumentalities more conspicuous.

An object of my invention is to provide a tubular shielding device ofthe class described adapted to envelope the lower end of a guy or 0bracing cable, and which is characterized by an absence of sharp cornersor edges likely to cause injury to persons colliding therewith.

Another object of my invention lies in the provision of improved meansfor fastening a shielding member to a rod or cable.

A further object 'of my invention is to provide an improved guy guardwhich is economical of manufacture and which may be readily installedand removed from a guy cable or the like.

1 Other objects and advantages will appear from the following detaileddescription and accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 of which illustrates thedevice of my invention as applied to an anchor rod having a single guycable secured'thereto; Fig. 2 shows an application of my improved guyguard to a supporting, or staying assembly employing a pair of guycables connected to a single anchor rod; Fig. 3 is a sectional viewtaken longitudinally through the sheath, or guard proper; Figs. 4 and 5,respectively, are fragmentary plan, and end views of my improvedprotector device; 6 and '7, respectively, are sectional views taken attransverse planes indicated by the lines 6-6 and '77 of Fig. 3; Figs. 8and 9 are views showing relatively opposite ends ofa clamping block, orbody member; Figs. 10 and'll illustrate relatively opposite sides of aclamping strap; Fig. 12 is aplan view of a tapered sheath clampingelement, and Figs. 13,114 and 15 illustrate a modified form of clampingblock or body member.

Referring'now by characters of reference to the drawings, the shieldingelement of my improved guy guard consists of an elongate sheetmetaltube, or sleeve 16. The sleeve has a slotted wall opening extending thefull length thereof, and the metal adjacent the opposite margins of theslot is turned convergingly inwardly to provide flanges 17. In Figs. 1and 2 the sleeve 16' is shown disposed about the lower portion of a guycable 18, which is secured, at its lower end, to .an anchor rod 19 as bymeans of the cable clamp 20, the upper end of the cable being shown asfastened to the post 21, which is representative of any object to beguyed or braced.

against the inner surface of the sleeve.

For fastening the sleeve 16 about the cable 18 and anchor rod 19, a pairof clamping devices (designated 22) are provided, one of which, bypreference, is positioned on the anchor rod immediately below the anchoreye 23, and the other r of which is secured to the guy cable at a pointnear the upper end of the sleeve. -As appears in Fig. 2, whichillustrates a pair of guy cables connected to a single anchor rod, both'clamping assemblies are positioned on one of the cables,

the uppermost thereof being the most desirable,

the other cable extending through the slot in the sleeve 1 6-forengagement with the anchor eye.

Each clamping device includes a body member which may consist of adie-cast block, designated 24 in Figs. 5, 6 and '7, or which'may beformed of heavy gauge strip metal as shown in Figs. 13 and 14,illustrating a modified form of clamping body. Coacting with one end ofthe body member 24, for securing the devicetoa guy cable or anchor rod,is a clamping strap 25. By preference, the central portion of the strap25 is laterally oifset, to provide a projecting portion 26, which isadapted to cooperate with a V-shaped so groove or cable seat 2'7, formedin the end of the body member, for securing the clamping assembly to arod or cable of relatively small diameter, as shown in Fig. '7. Wherethe clamping device is to be applied to a guy member of relatively largediameter, the clamping strap 25 is inverted, with respect to itsposition relative to the body member shown in Fig. '7, to enableclamping of the rod or cable between the grooved surfaces of the bodyand strap members, as appears in Fig. 6. Clamping means are provided inthe form of bolts 28 which extend through apertures 29 in the strap 25,for reception in tap bores 29 of the body member. By preference thebolts 28 are provided with lock washers 30. The body member 24 isprovided with rounded shoulder portions 31 which are adapted to bearsolidly The flanges 1'7 of the sleeve extend into, and engage inwardlyconvergent faces 32 of a recess in the v body member. The faces 32 arepreferably concave, as shown in Fig. 8, whereby to conform to the shapeof a conical washer 33. A bolt 34 extends through the washer 33 and intoa tapped bore 35 in the body member. It will appear that 0 when the bolt34 is drawn up tightly, the conical washer is caused to press againstportions of the flanges 17 overlying the concave recess faces 32,producing an arcuate crimp or deformation 36 (Fig. 4) in each flange. Byreason of this crimp the sleeve member is held against endwisedisplacement even though the bolt 34 should become loosened.

In the modified form of clamping body illustrated in Figs. 13, 14 and15, a strip of metal of suitable dimensions is bent to conform to aninner peripheral portion of the sleeve member, the ends of the stripbeing brought together and turned angularly inwardly to provide thecable seat 27a. In other respects the modified form of clamping body 24ais substantially similar to the member 24.

When installing my device on a guy cable or the like, the clampingassemblies are initially removed from the sleeveso as to facilitatetheir' application to the cable. After determining the proper locationsalong the cable for placing the clamping assemblies, the assemblies areapplied to the cable at the predetermined locations and positionedrelatively, with their bolts 34 parallel and partially withdrawn fromthe body members 24. The sleeve' 16 is then disposed about the cables bycausing the cable to be passed through the slotted wall opening of thesleeve, after which the sleeve is suitably adjusted to cause the flangesl7 to'be seated against the convergent faces 32 of the body member 24.The washer members 33 are then drawn up tightly against the flanges,clamping the sleeve 16 to the cable. a

It will be readily understood that minor changes in the formand'construction of my improved guard for guy rods and cables may bemade and substituted for those herein shown and I described withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention, the scope of which is setforth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a guy guard, an elongate, longitudinally slotted sleeve of sheetmetal, inwardly projecting flanges at the margins of said slot, andsleeve positioning means adapted crimpingly to engage said flanges.

2. A guy guard including an elongate sheet metal sleeve having a wallslot extending the full length thereof, inwardly projecting flangesformed at the margins of said wall slot, and sleeve fastening meansdisposed in the slot for clamping engagement with said flanges.

3. In a guy guard, a tubular guard member having a longitudinal wallopening extending the full length thereof, a clamping device forpositioning said member about a rod or cable arranged to deform portionsof the sleeve adjacent the wall opening, and clampingly to engage thesleeve at said deformed portions.

4. In a protector device for guy rods or cables, an elongate sleevehaving a slotted Wall opening, sleeve positioning means comprising aclamping body, means adjacent one end of the body for engaging a guy rodor cable, means at the opposite end of the block adapted crimpingly toengage portions of the sleeve adjacent the wall opening.

5. In a protector device for guy cables and the like, a tubular guardmember having a slotted wall opening, a clamping device for positioningsaid member about a guy cable including a body portion recessed at oneend to receive a plug, and a plug for said recess arranged to engage anddeform the guard member adjacent the wall opening. V

6. In a protector device for guy cables, an elongate tubular sleeveformed of sheet metal having a slotted wall aperture extending the fulllength thereof, means for positioning the sleeve about a cable includinga recessed body member, and a tapered plug for the recess, said plugadapted to coact with the body member to crimp and clamp marginalportions of the sleeve adjacent said wall aperture.

7. A guy guard comprising a longitudinally slotted sleeve member,inwardly turned flanges at the margins of the slot, a clamping deviceincluding a body member having a flange receiving recess traversing oneend thereof, the oppo site faces of the recess converging inwardly, atapered plug for said recess and a bolt extending through the plug forthreaded engagement with the body member, said bolt adapted to clampportions of said flanges between the plug and body member.

8. In a guy guard, a longitudinally slotted sleeve member formed ofsheet material, inwardly projecting flanges at the margins of the slotextending the full length of the, sleeve member, a clamp assemblyincluding a body portion recessed at one end to receive said flanges,and a conical washer adapted crimpingly to engage portions of theflanges disposed in said recess.

9. In a protector device for guy cables and the like, a tubular guardmember slotted longitudinally to provide a wall opening, inwardlyprojecting flanges at the edges of the wall opening extending the fulllength of the guard member; a clamping assembly including a body membertransversely recessed at its opposite ends, a clamping strap adapted tosecure a cable in one of the recesses, and a conical plug adaptedcrimpingly to secure portions of said flanges in the other of saidrecesses.

10. In a protector device for guy cables and the like, an elongate sheetmetal tube having an axiallyextending slotted wall opening, inwardlyprojecting flanges at the margins of said wall opening extending thefull length of the tube; a clamping assembly including a body memberhaving transversely extending grooves of parallel trend, each at one endof the body member, a clamping strap having a centrally off-set portionadapted to coact with one of said grooves to position the assembly on aguy cable, the other of said grooves forming a seat for a conical plug,said body member having rounded shoulders, arranged internally to engagethe tube, and a conical plus disposed in said seat and adaptedclampingly to engage portions of said flanges.

C. ADIN FOX.

